Anchor block for railroad ties



s H C O A. F. G.

May 10, 1927.

ANCHOR BLOCK FOR RAILROAD TIES Filed AuE. 18 1926 atto: um*

Patented May 10, 1927.

UNITED STATES GEORGE F. A. OCI-IS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

ANCHOR BLOCKk FOR RAILROAD TIES.

Application led August 18, 1926.

The object of the invention is to provide a rail attaching means in the form of an insert for embedding in and effecting an interlocking engagement with the tie; to

lprovide a` construction wherein two inserts comprising a pair are secured in place by a common fastener disposed below and covered by the rail when attached; and to provide a construction of this character which is extremely simple and effective and yet susceptible of cheap manufacture and low marketing cost. v

With this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of whichl a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a portion of a manufactured railroad tie showing the invention applied in operative position there-- Figures 2 and 3 are respectively transverse sectional views on the planes indicated by the lines 2-2 and 3-3 of Figure 1. y

Though applicable to any form of tie, the invention is'shown as employed in connection with a tie 10 of laminar construction formed at points, where the rails 11 seat, with pockets for the reception of anchor blocks 12, constituting inserts and receiving the rail holding spikes 14. The anchor blocks 12 are preferably of laminar construction, the laminee consisting of steel plates secured together by rivets 15, the intermediate laminae being punched, so that in the assembled block a spike receiving pocket is provided terminating at its inner end in divergent prong sockets for the reception of the terminal prongs orv fingers 16 of the spike which is bifurcated at its lower end7 so that in the operation of inserting it, the fingers are deflected laterally in entering the sockets andthus secure the spikes in place in the anchor blocks sufficiently to preclude removal due to all the strains ordinarily imposed upon the rail in practice Certain of the laminae comprising the anchor blocks are serrated, as indicated at 17, to provide teeth for interlocking engagement with teeth 1S on the fingers of the spikes.

The anchor blocks 12 comprise the complemental sections 12a seated at'their under edge on an arcuate yoke plate 19 constitut-ing the bottom wall of a pocket formed Serial No. 130,053.

in the tie. In the formation of the anchor block pocket, enough stock is left at the top face of the tie at either end of the pocket to provide abutment ears 21 for engagement with the shoulders 2() on the anchor blocks. The anchor blocks on the under edges being arcuate, are capable of slight rocking movement on the yoke plate so that the shoulders 2O may be brought into firm` engagement with the abutment ears when the fastening means for the anchor blocks is attached. Each pair of blocks is provided with a single fastening means common to both and the same comprises a screw 22 having a preferably quadrangular head 23 engaged in al correspondingly shaped seat on the under face and at the center of the yoke plate 19. The screw 22 extends upwardly for the receptiong of a female screw 24 which extends through an eye bored half in each of the sections 12a of the anchor block and being counterbored for the reception of the head 25 of the screw. In the rotation of the screw 24, the head 25 is brought into engagement with the shoulder 26 formed at the bottom of the counterbore and the sections of the anchor block are thus rocked on the base plate and the shoulders 20 forced into firm engagement with the abutment ears 21. The two sections of the anchor block are thus securely held in position in the tie, from which they may be removed, after the removal of the rail, Inerely by the detaching of the screw 24.

The invention having been described what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A railroad tie having anchor blocks embedded therein below the top face thereof, each anchor block comprising complemental sections, and a fastener interposed between said sections at their adjoining ends, said fastener being removably engaged with the tie and in bearing engagement with said sect-ions.

2. A railroad tie provided in its upper face with inserts constituting anchor blocks, the remote extremities of the anchor blocks having shoulders and the tie being provided with abutment 'ears engaging said shoulders, a yoke plate embedded in the tie and engaged by the anchor blocks, the latter having rounded under edges, and a fastening member secured to the yoke plate at an intermediate point and engaging the adjacent ends of the anchor blocks.

3. A mh'romd. tio yu'ovhul in its uppol. face with inserts ool'lstitutug anchor blocks of? which @uch is composed of :L pair of oomplen'lentzll sections, means for remov- 5 ably locking' said Sections in the tie, and

ny plate soatevd in L depression in the tie, said locking comprising telesoopcully oommctvd screws of which orlo is ongngeffl with said plato :md the, other with tho sow tions of said anchor blocks. 10

In testimony whereof he alxes his Signature.

GEORGE I". A. OCIIS. 

